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enate Committee Recommends Against Passage of Sales Tax for . Oregon
Monday, May 1, 1955
Vote Scheduled
On Conlroversial
Issue on Tuesday
Salem OJ.PJ The Senate
Tax Committee headed by Sen.
Rudie Wilhelm of Portland de
cided to give the full Senate a
chance to vote on the sales tax,
but voted 4 to 3 after an all day
session yesterday to recommend
against its passage.
The Senate votes today to have
the bill reprinted with the
amendments made by the Sen
ate Committee yesterday. The is
gue will be voted on tomorrow.
Sugar Coating
The measures were amended
to take out what the opposition
called "sugar coating." One of
the problems facing the commit
. tee was the estimate of tax ex
perts that the sales tax would
not raise enough money in the
first year of the next biennium
to offset an anticipated deficit.
To correct this, the committee
knocked out S15 per census child
which would have gone to the
counties and the basic school
fund under tlie House version of
the sales tax package. Part of
this was for construction in dis
tressed school districts.
Under the Senate version, the
counties would still get $10 per
census child.
Second-Year Surplus
Tax commission statisticians
estimated that under the Senate
version the state would end the
first year of the next biennium
$5,000,000 in the red; but with
$6,000,000 surplus in the sec
ond year.
Other Senate amendments
would exempt cigarettes from
the sales tax if the cigarette tax
goes into effect and would also
exempt transient lodgings such
as hotels and motels.
Forty-five per cent surtaxes on
Income taxes would not go into
effect if the sales tax is passed.
If the sales tax is adopted and
approved by the voters, the in
come tax exemptions would be
raised from the present $600 per
person to $1200 for each husband
and wife and $600 for each child.
Senate Subcommittee Conducts
Hearings on Hells Canyon Dam
Washington OJ.PJ A Sen
ate Interior subcommittee be
gins the second phase today of
hearings on a bill to authorize
the government to build the con
troversial Hells Canyon dam.
The bill was introduced by
39 Democratic senators but it
has met with passive resistance,
if not outright opposition, from
the Eisenhower administration.
Technical Testimony
The subcommittee held hear
ings earlier in the year in Idaho.
Members said the sessions here
would be devoted mostly to tech
nical testimony. Four Interior
department officials and two
from the Army Engineers are
among witnesses scheduled to ap-1 government dam, along with
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D
Ore.) who made a campaign issue
Former Husband of
Mrs. Smith Unable
To Help in Quiz
Portland (U.P.) The sec
ond husband of Marjorie Kermit
Smith, attractive Portland wid
ow accused of planning the
bomb-slaying of her husbar.d was
questioned by police yesterday
but said he could shed no light
on his former wife's activities.
Michael L. Brant, who mar
ried a southern Oregon girl on
April 16, said he had not seen
Marjorie for four or five years.
He returned Sunday from a
honeymoon in California, Nev
ada and New Mexico.
Married in Vancouver
Brant married the accused
widow in Vancouver, Wash., in
1949 four years after she was
divorced from her first husband,
Merrick F. Hershey of Sacra
mento, Calif.
Smith's confessed slayer,. 45-year-e'd
Victor Laurence Wolf,
has accused Mrs. Smith of en
gineering her husband's death so
that they could collect $21,000
in insurance. '
She has been charged with
first degree murder, but has em
phatically denied the charge.
California Town Gradually
Becoming Covered by Sand
" Seaside, Calif .XU.PJ Seaside
has proved an ironic name for
this town as day-by-day there is
more seaside and less town.
Unnoticed, tiny grains of sand
are tumbling down from the
lofty dunes behind this village
on the rim of Monterey bay, en
croaching on the inhabitants and
their properties.
To date the invasion of parti
cles has buried a sycamore tree,
sifted through a house so that
only the roof remains in sight,
covered an automobile and sub
merged a mythical street under
50 feet of sand.
Started 30 Years Ago
The ever-increasing w a v
started more than 30 years ago
when a brick factory on the
north side of town was torn
down. For more than 20 years
the sand covered more and more
property, but a sudden growth
of brush halted it for a time.
Residents say the brush was a
perfect retaining wall until 10
years ago when maneuvers by
Army tanks along the dunes kill
ed the plants. From then until
now the relentless sand has
pushed on.
No that someone hasn't tried
to stop it.
. Richard Mercier but a retain
ing wall behind his home on
Spruce st. The sand Just backed
up until it was high enough to
flow over it. Now, Mercier said,
it's shifting his whole house on
its foundations,
Ellsworth Amos lost an auto
under the sand.
"I sold the car but had to take
it back because the buyer didn't
make the payments," Amos said.
'"But I couldn't find it. A few
months later I discovered it had
been covered by the dunes."
City officials point out that if
Third st., which -shows only on
county maps, actually existed, it
would be under 50 feet of sand.
Eight years ago Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Harding were proud of
the handsome sycamore that
grew in their backyard. Today
only the dead topmost branches
are free of the dazzling white
sand.
Mrs. Harding tried fighting
the sand by growing a lawn. She
admits that it slowed the wave's
progress but not for long.
Implacable Menace
"We try to keep the children
from playing on the dunes be
cause every movement sends
little more sand down on top of
us," she said.
The sana has become an im
placable menace. It seeps under
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tight enough to keep it out. On
windy nights its finds it way
into beds and clothing, and food
has a continually inescapable
grittiness.
The residents' quiet despera
tion has been growing with the
soft wave but not as fast. As
Mac Rowe, a reporter for the
Monterey Peninsula Herald
pointed out, Seaside townspeo
ple "have been fighting hopeless
individual battles."
The only solution seems to be
a community sponsored project
to replant the whole stretch of
dunes. So far none of the resi
dents has been able to inspire a
concerted counter-attack.
New York Harbor boasts 24,
000 annual arrivals and de
partures of ocean-going vessels
discharging and picking up cargo
and passengers, more than any
other port in the world. Each
month 1,000 ships sail away.
Italy's population density
about 412 per square mile.
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A human eye blink takes from
l10th to Vi, of a second.
pear.
The bill would authorize the
$350,000,000 Hells Canyon dam
on the Snake river on the Idaho
Oregon border, a smaller pow
er plant on Scriven creek in
Idaho and transmission lines to
tie the plants into the govern
ment's Bonneville power sys
tem. The project was sponsored by
the Truman administration but
a House committee refused to
approve it. Interior Secretary
Douglas McKay officially drop
ped the project two .years ago.
The Idaho Power Company
then applied for a Federal Pow
er commission license for three
low dams in the canyon. Drawn
out hearings on the application
have been completed but the
FPC examiner who . heard the
case has not made a recommen
dation yet.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Is
chief sponsor of the bill for the
Pope Proclaims
St. Joseph Day
Vatican City OJ.PJ Pope
Pius XII proclaimed May Day
the feast day of St. Joseph the
Workman in a speech yesterday
to 300,000 workers and pilgrims
in St. Peters Square.
The Pope's announcement,
made at the most impressive Vat
ican ceremony of the year, stole
the spotlight from Communists
who had long claimed the May
Day for themselves.
He warned workers against
the "discordant and alluring
voices directed at you from dif
ferent quarters, some to ensnare
your souls, some to debase you
as men, or to defraud you of
your legitimate rights as work
ers . . ."
And he said it was a "mon
strous lie . . . that the 'church
is allied with capitalism against
labor'."
The Pope, in a 23-minute ad
dress in which he warned labor
to stiffen its resistance to Com
munism, was borne through St.
Peter's Square on his golden ges
tatorial chair for the first time
since his collapse last December.
Veterinarians May
Treat Casualties
Washington OI.PJ Veter
inarians should prepare now to
treat human casualties in the
event of a national emergency,
the Federal Civil Defense Ad
ministration advises.
Immediately following an at
tack, veterinarians will be ex
pected to aid physicians in treat
ing shock, burns, surgical casual
ties, administer medication and
blood and assist in the care of
radiation casualties. For this
work, they are urged to register
for American Red Cross first
aid training courses'.
'Protection of food animals
against disease and the effects
of atomic, biological and chemi
cal warfare also has been dele
gated to the veterinary medical
services in a civil defense emer
gency. Veterinarians also will in
spect meat, poultry and other
foods of animal origin, the
FCDA said.
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Knowland Attacks
Any Attempt To
Appease Commies
Chicago U.R) Sen. William
F. Knowland, carrying his cam
paign7 against the administra
tion's Formosa policy into the
heart of the Midwest, has de
nounced any attempt to appease
the Communists by "carving up
an ally."
The Senate minority leader put
in a busy day yesterday as he
delivered warnings in speeches
at Loyalty Day observances here
and in Burlington, wis.
The speeches hammered home
his criticisms of President" Eisen
hower's willingness to negotiate
a cease fire with Red China in
the Formosa Straits.
Compared with Yalta
He compared such a cease fire
meeting with the Yalta confer
ence and said "The history of
these conferences has been that
it is always the free world that
gaves up territory and surren
ders human beings to the con
trol of the Communists."
The Californian said that he
knows of no "legal, moral or
constitutional rights for the
heads of two great states to sit
down and carve up an aly, eith
er in Eastern Europe or Asia."
The famed swallows of south
ern .California's mission of San
Juan Capistrano are cliff swal
lows, one of the few western
birds that live close to man.
Square-tailed, they build globu
lar mud nests under eaves.
Clarke School for the Deaf at
Northampton,' Mass., and New
York City's Lexington School
for the Deaf, both founded in
1867, started the movement in
America to teach deaf children
to speak and read lips, the oral
method of education.
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PACIFIC QUEENS At the crossroads of the Pacific in
Honolulu three international beauties get together and
math charms. Left to right: Mae Biemes, Hawaii's "Poster
Girl," Glenys Wood, Australia's "Girl of the Golden
Beaches" and Ann Adam, "Miss Alaska Statehood of 1955."
Steelworkers May
Frame Demands for
Big Pay' Increases
Pittsburgh (U.R) The United
Steelworkers' wage-policy com
mittee was expected today to
frame demands for a substantial
pay increase when it meets here
May 11-12 to plan strategy for
1955 wage talks with the nation's
steel makers. '
Union sources gave no hint of
what their demands would be,
but industry forces expected a
money demand of not less than
10 cents an hour for the 1,200,-000-strong
union whose members
currently average $2 an hour.
Whopping Demands Predicted
The industry predicted whop
ping demands because steel pro
duction appeared headed for the
second best year in history with
output at nearly 96 per cent of
practical capacity. Industry lead
ers have predicted, on a basis of
first quarter reports, that pro
duction this year might hit a
peak second only to the record
production of 1953.
The steelworkers won a 12V4
cent hourly boost in 1954 when
the industry's operating rate had
skidded to slightly more than 60
per cent. The increase includes aJ
five cent hourly wage hike, with
the remainder going for addi
tional pension and insurance
benefits. ;
Wage Clauses Reopened' '
USW President David Ji. Mc
Donald called the meeting of the
170-man group Saturday, three
days after the union notified 96
basic steel and ore mining, firm
that wage clauses in its . 1954
agreement were being reopened.
Two-year agreements reached
last June specify that only wage
provisions may be revised this
year.
Negotiations must begin with
in 30 days after notification of
reopening and the union would
be free to strike if no agreement
is reached by June 30.
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